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“You can do contests with this material…and win.”That’s what the senior Toastmaster/Public Speaker told me after I finished my speech. I don’t remember the last time I was this hyped for a project I needed to finish.For this performance, I decided to apply the feedback from the previous one, so instead of memorizing, I was going to improvise it. There were bullet points of course, but the weight of the endless chain… Read More

Today I hit one of the biggest milestones of the year: I gave a speech in Dutch; my third language. Ever since I was a kid, standing in front of a crowd of 20+ people wasn’t really a problem for me. I was always “the class clown” in school, and I really enjoyed it. Every single time when there was an opportunity to present myself, I took it. It was a chance… Read More